Edmund Shaw

Also known as: Edmund Shaw knight · Family: London · Role: mayor of London · First appears: Edward V 5

Life events

• c. 1483 · Edmund Shaw was made a councillor to help promote the protector's design.(Edward V 13 · 📍 London)
  • “Among whome they made of councell Edmund Shaw knight then maior of London”

Edward V 5

• sworn: Edward V “When the king approched néere to the citie, Edmund Shaw goldsmith, then maior, with William White, and Iohn Matthew shiriffes and all the other aldermen in scarlet, with fiue hundred horsse of the citizens, in violet, receiued him reuerentlie at Harnesie;”

Edward V 13

• siblings with John Shaw (John Shaw is explicitly identified as Edmund Shaw's brother.) “Among whome they made of councell Edmund Shaw knight then maior of London, which vpon trust of his owne aduancement, whereof he was of a proud heart highlie desirous, should frame the citie to their appetite. Of spirituall men they tooke such as had wit, and were in authentic among the people for opinion of their learning, and had no scrupulous conscience. Among these had they Iohn Shaw clearke brother to the maior”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.